UPDATED: Sexually-transmitted diseases & school administrators

Linking unrelated things together is the American way. From Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (peanut butter and chocolate), to drive-through coffee houses and the Prosperity Gospel, incongruity sometimes helps us put things in perspective.

VD and the BISD

A very sharp Beaumont blogger notes that the salary of the Beaumont school district’s CEO and the syphilis rate in the Golden Triangle are rising at the same time. The blogger’s got a punchline and I’ll let him/her tell it to you.(Found by the EN’s Barry Robinson)

A bold new legal precedent is being established in San Francisco, site of last month’s tiger attack that left a kid dead at the city zoo. After this, you’ll think twice about mouthing off at stray dogs or pissed-off ferrets.

A 17-year-old boy died in the Christmas attack and zoo officials have admitted that the enclosure holding the animal could’ve been safer.

Now, the focus is on the three victims who were mauled. They were drunk and stoned and were taunting the animal.

Does that matter? If someone’s an obnoxious drunk who isn’t committing violent crime, driving a car, performing surgery or writing a blog while they’re smashed, do they deserve to die? What the hell?

Just kidding. It’s meant to catch terrorists, and there’s a difference, to wit: your rights are considered collateral damage in the war on terror. Sorry. Want proof? One guy used the system to stalk an ex-girlfriend. Now someone was nailed selling access to federal law enforcement databases.